What Makes a Classic Kitchen?
Most of us don’t want a trendy kitchen, we want a classic kitchen. In this one part of our home where the family connects and feels at ease, we want a timeless, comfortable space that we can enjoy for years. We feed our families, gather with friends, and make memories in this space. We want […]
Upcoming Color Trends in 2022
Try googling “upcoming color trends in interior design” and you’ll get see a plethora of posts listing the “10 (or 15, or 21) most popular paint colors to use right now!”, or “The 2022 color of the month/year”, etc. This post is NOT about that. Since I’m one of the color consultants for Paper Moon […]
The Best Black Paint Colors – Our Top 4 Picks
Black is a fabulous color for adding contrast, “edge”, or glamour, and as home and cabinet painters, we’ve painted more than our share of black out there, so we wanted to share our top four picks for the best black paint colors. There is a plethora of options, but choosing one really comes down to […]
How to Choose Wallpaper Online – Tips and Tricks
Knowing how to choose wallpaper, especially if you’re shopping online, can make the difference between jumping for joy when your new wallpaper is installed, or desperately looking up the vendor’s return policy and hoping you didn’t just make a very expensive mistake! Finding the right wallpaper for your space is now both harder and […]
White Kitchen Ideas – One Kitchen, Six Ways
As an experiment recently, I googled “white kitchen ideas” to see what the all-knowing internet had to offer. We get asked to paint kitchen cabinets white so often, and see the hesitation that some homeowners have about painting their kitchen all white, that I wanted to have something useful to offer. However, while there must […]
Should I Paint My Cabinets Two Different Colors?
Painting cabinets two different colors can elevate a kitchen to a whole new level, design-wise. While it used to be considered a bit daring or even eccentric, we now see two-tone kitchens quite often. But is there a reason to take this risky-sounding move? Or should you stick to just one tried-and-true color for your […]
How a Color Consultant Can Save your Project
Before I got trained as a color consultant, I used to stress over picking paint colors. I’d come home from the paint store with ziploc bags full of paint chips. No such thing as too many choices, right? Somewhere among all those paint chips would be the perfect color, the one that would make […]
Interior Painting: Using White Paint the Right Way
White paint is the go-to color for most homeowners in Austin, TX, and with good reason! (It’s quickly become the go-to color in San Antonio, TX as well, although San Antonio kept its beiges and tan colors a lot longer than Austin did. By the way, the lovely white interior space in our title […]
Updating a Tuscan Brown Home? Here are 6 Tips
If you’re ready to start updating your Tuscan brown home, where do you begin? What will have the most impact immediately? Do you start with painting the walls? (Not a bad plan!) New rugs? Furniture?? Moving out of the Dark Ages (the “Brown Phase”) actually starts with decluttering! Because most homes designed during the […]
